Schoemansdal community members have come together to provide their elderly with free reusable masks.

Briedly.co.za learned that this was after 2 cases of COVID-19 were confirmed. Lydia Sono, community builder and winner of Mpumalanga Sunrise Women’s Awards: Humanitarian Category set up the initiative after her friend Thabang Meyiwa came to her with the idea.

"We decided to go out and ask for donations,” Sono told the media.“We managed to raise enough money to buy 30 metres of material and a 14-year-old boy volunteered to sew the masks for us for free.”

Sono knew that Junior Mbelekwane, a grade 8 learner, enjoyed sewing and asked him he wanted to come on board with the programme according to the Lowvelder.